How do I download the Gson library?

Question

Should be simple question.

When I go to https://github.com/google/gson I can only download the library as a zip folder as opposed to a jar file.

Where can I

Answer 1

am bit late but for anyone in future, https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.code.gson/gson/2.8.0

ofcourse if its vresion changes you can figure it out from the base url.

Answer 2

First you need to clone the repository locally on your computer:

git clone https://github.com/google/gson

Then you go inside the project folder ./gson and you create the jar file running:

mvn package

Of course to do this you need to have maven installed, if you are under osx you can install it running

brew install maven

Otherwise you can look for the installation for your system on the maven official website

After running mvn package the jar file will be in ./gson/gson/target/gson-2.7.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

Answer 3

There is a MVN Repo http://mvnrepository.com/ there you will find how to add to a maven OR in your case how to download the lib jars

Answer 4

I just downloaded it here:

https://jar-download.com/explore-java-source-code.php?a=gson&g=com.google.code.gson&v=2.7&downloadable=1

Is working for me.